Investors from Europe are coming back, but they select their markets very carefully. They are only looking at gateway cities like: Washington DC, New York, Boston, not Atlanta. They are looking some in Miami because of the industrial base. But they don’t like to be in a scenario where they need to compete with many [...]

Commercial real estate short sales are a very complex process that is very different from the conventional short sale that we know from in the residential market. First of all you are dealing with a very different type of bank, usually a local bank, who has very tight control on the loan it services and [...]

The United State real estate market offers right now the best appreciation and stability potential world wide. This is the shared opinion of many international investors who join together into an association that takes care of representing their trade, information and political needs inside of the US. Its name is Association of Foreign Investors in [...]

Concentrated as we are in selling a specific house or “making a deal” in our own market, we easily lose sight of the major factors that can make all the difference between fighting every day for a result and growing an healthy real estate business. Real estate is local by definition and therefore you need [...]

Today I have begun my formal training as a CIPS (Certified International Property Specialist) which is the official US designation for Realtor that are specialized in dealing with transactions that involve foreigners and that can also involve properties abroad. There area about two thousand professionals with the CIPS designation throughout the world and therefore I [...]

In a previous article I have already reported that Llenrock Group counts on international real estate funds to come to the rescue and this might very well be the case (see “International Investors Coming to Rescue the US”). But what does this mean to you? If so many banks collapse all at the same time, [...]

What is the basic formula of success in commercial real estate investing when you are looking to attract local or international real estate investors? The properties you are looking to acquire should have multiple rental income streams but should not have a business connected with them. It is that simple. Let’s make an example: an [...]

I have reviewed the traffic statistics of my blog and there are 5 articles that have gathered the most attention of my readers in the last few weeks. Here they are in the order of preference expressed by the readers themselves: Selling a Home in 21 Days Which provides practical suggestions for a very needed [...]

Many times I have people contacting me and offering a “fantastic deal that is perfect for my international investors”. More often than not it is simply some unsellable property that nobody would ever buy today, like an over-priced condo unit or a piece of vacant land in some war zone neighborhood. They think a foreigner [...]

Entering a new field you need to know the jargon and the commercial real estate world has a language of its own that is used by the professionals to communicate very specific concepts that do not exist in other fields of domestic or international real estate activities. A mezzanine lender is similar, in commercial real [...]